Posts Tagged Vista

Windows Media Player Library Location

Posted by Alarchy in Tech on October 5, 2009

Since I didn’t know where this was, here is how to find your WMP library (if you have legacy stuff in it or want to delete it). I have since moved to Media Monkey.

Windows XP:

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player

Windows Vista/7:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player

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Fix Strange Mouse/Display Problems at 120+ DPI

Posted by Alarchy in Games, Tech on September 22, 2009

So yeah, after banging my head against the wall trying to get Red Faction Guerrilla working on my HTPC (which was then disassembled out of frustration) I found out how to finally fix it.

Seems Red Faction is coded like a game from 1998 (Starcraft) and is one of only two games I have EVER had not work on my PC. Long story short in compatibility (under properties) you have to select “Disable display scaling on high DPI settings” to get it to work – otherwise you’ll have one of the following problems:

  • Display blinks black repeatedly, never loads
  • Sounds are COMPLETELY messed up (way loud, or distorted)
  • Moving the mouse will spin you around in a circle
  • Moving the mouse wheel will turn your character

Starcraft is also somewhat affected. DPI at 120 or higher will cause the minimap to no longer let you click in certain areas.

Glad they took the extra months to make sure Red Faction Guerrilla worked at 120+ DPI. This trick should work in both XP and Vista (and 7)

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Vista: Resize System Restore Shadow Volume

Posted by Alarchy in Tech on August 23, 2009

Vista uses a crap ton of storage space for System Restore, and will fill it up well past 30GB if you let it. There is no GUI option to change this in Home Premium, so here’s what you have to do to change it.

Courtesy of HowToGeek

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Vista: Windows Explorer Opens a New Window on “Explore”

Posted by Alarchy in Tech on August 23, 2009

Fun times with IE8 installation. Apparently it fails to register a singular DLL file, and will cause Windows Explorer to open up new windows every time you try to explore to a folder/directory.

This is the fix:

Open a new “Command Prompt” window by right-clicking and selecting “Run as administrator”

At the prompt, run the command “regsvr32 actxprxy.dll”.

If you get an error from RegSvr32 with an error code of 0×80070005, you forgot to run the Command Prompt as administrator

Thanks to Random Poster on Egghead Cafe

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